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| THE WEEK IN REVIEW 14/08/2010 |
| (2010-08-13) |
| Last updated: 2010-08-16 13:01 EET |
The floods that afflicted Romania in June and July left 26 people dead and caused damage worth 800 million euros. Torrential rains and flash floods destroyed infrastructure and homes in 40 of Romania’s 42 counties. Bucharest plans to tap the EU Solidarity Fund, hoping to receive 25 million euros. Romania initially hoped to get more financial help, but larger countries such as France and Poland have been hit by floods as well. The government recently issued a medium and long term strategy for defence against floods, planning to invest 17 billion euros over a period of 25 years for public works to that effect.
After torrential rains, floods and thunderstorms, Romania is under extreme heat alert. The yellow alert for high temperatures was extended to Monday. Recently, temperatures have often revolved around 35 or 36 degrees and went up to 38 or 39 degrees in the south and east. The worst news, however, is that the heat index, the figure that shows the comfort level, a combination of temperature and humidity, went over the critical 80 unit threshold. Dozens of people collapsed in the streets because of the heat, and medical emergency telephone lines got jammed. Children, the elderly and heart patients suffer the most. Tens of thousands of people sought relief from the sun in the Black Sea or mountain resorts this weekend. However, people who went for a refreshing bath in the Black Sea had an unpleasant surprise: sea water temperatures are around 30 degrees Celsius.
President Traian Basescu called on the two chambers of Parliament to meet in an extraordinary session to pass some laws that are overdue. The lower chamber will meet on August 16th to discuss the law governing the National Integrity Agency, a body created upon request from the European Union to check if the assets of the Romanian dignitaries are acquired lawfully. Several key components of the old version of the law were declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court. The new bill introduces the obligation for trade union leaders to file extensive income statements as well. The income statements, which are to be published on-line, are to contain details regarding ownership of homes, jewellery, bank accounts, state contracts and credit cards. Parliament’s extraordinary session will also cover some high priority laws, such as speeding up the judicial process across the court system and the decentralization of the national healthcare system.
The Israeli President Shimon Peres paid a 3-day visit to Bucharest, the first to Romania by an Israeli president since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Talks with his Romanian counterpart, Traian Basescu, dwelt on the development of bilateral relations and also on sensitive issues of the international agenda such as the Middle East peace process and the Iranian nuclear file. President Basescu said Romania supported the resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations without pre-conditions and also of the negotiations between Israel and Syria. He also pointed out that Bucharest rejected the idea of Iran developing nuclear weapons and that it backed the UN sanctions against Iran. Shimon Peres appreciated Bucharest’s stand on the peace process in the Middle East and spoke about Romania’s role in saving 400 thousand Jews during the Nazi occupation, which contributed to the creation of the state of Israel. Shimon Peres paid homage to the 6 Israeli soldiers and the Romanian officer who died last month in a helicopter crash. They were participating in a joint exercise in a mountainous region in Romania, 140 kms north of the capital Bucharest.
Sfantu Gheorghe, a unique place in Romania where the Danube merges with the Black Sea, hosted this week the 7th edition of the Anonimul International Film Festival. Running for the grand prize in the feature film section of the competition are 7 films from Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Mexico, Canada and Bosnia. In the shorts section the public could watch more than 30 fiction films and about 20 animation films from 36 different countries. The festival started with the screening, for the first time in Romania, of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s most recent film “Certified Copy”. The HBO night, a special programme of the festival, featured the Romanian premiere of the TV film “Temple Grandin”, directed by Mick Jackson and nominated for 15 Emmy Awards and “The Shukar Collective Project” by the Romanian director Matei Alexandru Mocanu. The festival also included a section devoted to Romanian films. A section entitled “Actors Behind the Camera” featured, for the first time in Romania, the American production Teenage paparazzo. The film’s producer, Matthew Cooke was the special guest of the 7th edition of the Anonimul Film Festival.
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